Photo albums show the pictures…but…scrapbooks tell the story! It’s the scrapbook journaling that brings the life to your pages by providing details that a photo alone can’t give. Here are all the best scrapbook journaling tips to make writing on your pages easier.

This Father’s Day, why not give a gift from the heart and make a Father’s Day scrapbook page? It’s a fun and creative way to show your love, respect, and appreciation for that special father figure in your life. Here is a list of all the things you need to include to make the best Father’s Day scrapbook page.

Mother’s Day is a special day for your mother, and what better way to show your love than making an entire scrapbook for her… or maybe just a page or two? Here are some basic tips to make a scrapbook for mom.

You can use the colors in your photos to determine the colors of your cardstock, borders, and embellishments. Or you can try these simple tricks for finding fun color palettes for your scrapbook layouts!

I hope this retirement scrapbook might inspire you to create one for the retiring teacher in your life. It could also be great as a year-end gift for a current teacher, perhaps sponsored by a talented class mom who is willing to be very hands-on with the project. Have fun with it — the possibilities are endless!

Making scrapbook pages for Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite pastimes because there is so much you can do with a page about love, hearts, relationships, and memories. Here are my 10 best tips for making Valentines Day scrapbook pages.

Following are some fun ideas for New Year’s resolutions for those who do scrapbooking or rubber stamping. Perhaps they will be useful in helping you to start thinking about your own resolutions this year.

The scrapbook page toppers and titles that follow are the ones I review whenever I’m creating Christmas pages. Review this list before you start your Christmas scrapbook pages to get your creative juices flowing.

A bunch of Thanksgiving page titles for Thanksgiving scrapbook pages. I sometimes build an entire page around a phrase — as opposed to letting the photos dictate the headline or page title. These page titles also make great photo captions, sub-heads to break up the page, and random blurbs tossed haphazardly on the page to fill empty gaps.

Feng Shui is all about balance and harmony, and both are important in order to have a good looking scrapbook page. Just as in life, learning to work with with the colors of the earth and other simple principles can enhance your scrapbook pages’ overall environment and improve your life through harmony and energy flow.

One of the best journaling ideas that worked for me was to start an Idea Notebook filled with all of the tidbits of words & phrases I think would be good on scrapbook pages. These are ideas collected throughout the normal course of my day and saved all in one place. Here are some more simple ideas for getting creative with your journaling.

Want to try digital scrapbooking, but don’t really know where to start? First, select a FREE program to create your digital scrapbook layouts. Then, download some free graphics, backgrounds, fonts, templates, and more that will ultimately be used to accessorize and personalize your digital scrapbook pages. Here’s how to get started making digital scrapbooks, including lots of fun freebies and how-to’s for beginners…

I personally became interested in digital scrapbooking when I was trying to figure out a way to share my scrapbooks with relatives who live far away. Digital scrapbooking has made it possible for me to create scrapbook pages that I then could save to CD and send to those relatives who aren’t able to flip through the pages of my paper scrapbooks. Then, of course, there are all the little added special effects and things you can do with a digital scrapbook that are not possible with paper ones that make digital scrapbooking even more desirable for some.